Progress: Verb

Idea of Progress, the theory that scientific progress drives social progress; that advances in technology, science, and social organization inevitably produce an improvement in the human condition.

Scientific progress, the idea that science increases its problem solving ability through the application of some scientific method.

Social progress, the idea that societies can or do improve in terms of their social, political, and economic structures.

Progress trap, the condition societies find themselves in when human ingenuity, in pursuing progress, inadvertently introduces problems that it does not have the resources to solve, preventing further progress or inciting social collapse.
Five Things You Probably Don’t Know About Food Stamps →

abbyjean:

  1. A large and growing share of SNAP households are working households(see chart). In 2010, more than three times as many SNAP households worked as relied solely on welfare benefits for their income.
  2. SNAP responded quickly and effectively to the recession.
  3. Today’s large SNAP caseloads mostly reflect the extraordinarily deep and prolonged recession and the weak recovery. Workers who are unemployed for a long time are more likely to deplete their assets, exhaust unemployment insurance, and turn to SNAP for help, since it is one of the few safety net programs available for many long-term unemployed workers.
  4. SNAP has one of the most rigorous quality control systems of any public benefit program.
  5. SNAP’s recent growth is temporary. CBO predicts that SNAP spending will fall as a share of the economy as the economy recovers and the Recovery Act benefit increases expire.

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    I grew up on food stamps, and they helped my mom to get her life together and kept us fed. Don’t hate on a good program.
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    All of the deities bless the person/s who came up with food stamps. Those damn things have helped my family SO MUCH
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